The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...

The Smithsonian Passport being used at the US Botanic Garden. . Since its founding, Washington, DC has grown significantly.

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Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

Belle da Costa Greene, the first director of the Morgan Library, was a Black woman who passed as white in the early 20th ...

The Key West Art & Historical Society (KWAHS), established in 1949, is dedicated to preserving the cultural heritage of the ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

Found beneath an older tomb near Tarquinia, the painted chamber depicts several intricate scenes, including a metallurgical ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Archaeologists discovered an unusual bronze artifact studded with holes while excavating the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in ...

There’s nothing like getting caught in a giggle loop, where the desire to laugh builds until it bursts out at a disastrous moment. Only then do we often realize that laughter is a rather strange ...

Incas died at the Cincinnati Zoo, leaving behind mysteries over his death, his final resting place and the factors that led ...